The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1887-03-25

LOCAL. NEW ~
Naples are in bloom.

Naples are IN bloom.
The Legislature will adionn April fth.
The trade dollar is as good as any Other
dollarnOw.
Strawberries promise an unusually heavy
crop this year.
The public schools were closed this week
for a spring vacation.
\ bill has been introduced in the le2is-
iature making the pay Of Freeholder 81.
per day.
Ii is said that the Salem base ball club
this year may contain several of Woods
towns best players.
A lot Of hams belonging to Alfred Col
man were stolen from his shop over the
pond last Sunday night.
Harry Wood, of Pedricktown, takes ia
cob Edwards place as smith in the sop OF
Earl s Sanleer, on Salem street.
Chicken thieves visited the roost of Hurst
Paxson. in South Woodstown, one night
lately and captured about twenty fowls.
Those of our subscribers who have
changed their places of residence will
please notify lis. Give us the old as well as
the new address.
4 light house greeted the Tourists on
Monday evenng--not so good as the per
Torrance deserved The play is a good
one and created much mcrriment
Never skip the advertisements when
reading IA newspaper. They show just what
live business men are about. and every one
who has trading to do will find it pays to
trade " it'll those who advertise.
JOS. G.. Stretch has the contract fol
building a new barn on the Bowen proper
iy in place Of the one recently destroyed
by fire Mr. Stretch has several other con-
tracts on hand to be carried ont ring the
coming season.
Shaners are travelling in various parts
OF the State soliciting farmers to place THEN
signatures to a pledge not to destroy song
birds. These signatures are Subsequently
added to promissory notes which by some
means get into the banks leaving the farm
or to pay a neat little sum.
An order has been issued 10 the agents
aud bag gage-maSters of the Pennsy wanna
Railroad that all dead bodies offered for
transportation over the roads must be ac-
companicd by certificate from The Board
OF Health, located at the town where the
UOuy Is itCtiEctt lpi Sihbilil5 ti"i
the corpse is free from contagion
\ dis, ase pronounced by the veterinary
surgeon to be lung fever, has made its ap-
pearance among the horses at Disston S
stock farm, and has resulted i'll the death
of one of the animals mare valued at
$500 Another one is sick at this writing.
Mr.. DisStln has had the best veterinary
skill in attendance upon the sick animals.
We hear that some OF the prominent bus
mess men of Salem who dared to disiavol
rum and rumselling are 10 he boycotted IN
their business. For this favor they should
be truly thankful. If there is any one
thing a live business man should desire
more than another it's genuine boycott.
II it don't do him good he can only blame
himself for not taking advantage of il.
The South Jersey banks, as gathered
from their recent reports, hold nearly $50,
900 of trade dollars, and several Thousand
more are held by merchants and others who
preferred to hold them and trust for then
redemption than To sell them for eighty or
eiplity-iive cents The reports the banks
show the National State Bank at Camden,
holds $1S, 900; the First National, Camden,
So, 600; Salem bank. 81, OILS; Woodstown
Bank, 81, 1915 which stand the bank in 80
cents each: Woodbury. Bank, 5000; Swedes-
boro Bank, 500. The Bridgeton banks
make no report of any Of these dollars, al
though it is thought that they hold many
of them and include them in their reports
of specie The Camden Trust Company
has $1,000